Quote:This is one of the big things I do not understand. Illegal workers are a problem, I agree fully with this. I think most people will agree with this. However, what it does show, is that in an unregulated free market, employers will pay as little as they can. Not in relation to relative skill but as low as they can get away with to pad profits. When you have more people looking for good jobs than there are good jobs available, weather skilled or not, you find people willing to take much lower wages simply because they need income. If you don't have a minimum wage and a healthy one at all, what incentive is there at all for employers to pay a decent wage? I say there is zero incentive at all and in the end well over half the population (guessing here) suffers as a result.


The taxation is a completely different issue that also needs to be addressed but it does not fix the obvious problem. There are way more people than there are "non minimum wage" type jobs. There probably isn't even enough to support half the population. There is no solution to this problem. In my opinion, you help support the half (or whatever the % is) by having a decent, livable minimum wage or you simply do not care about those people.

If there was no black market economy not even the illegal immigrants would work for the wages they're paid. However I agree a 100% unregulated market isn't a possibility at this point, but what we have is so much regulation it's caused a stagnation in job creation and entrepreneurship. That's what I'm trying to say, to few people have the ability to create their own income and are forced to depend on these mega corporations for income.

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